Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Sonntag, 13. April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >>>> Due to disk space restrictions I've decided to make /tmp a symlink >>>> to /var/tmp instead of reserving space for both. >>> Why not use tmpfs for /tmp? It usually requires very little space, and >>> will use swap if memory is tight. >> >> I second that, tmpfs for /tmp is great: >> >> tmpfs 512M 12K 512M 1% /tmp > > Catch: You loose it all on reboot.
That's no catch. /tmp is meant to be empty upon reboot. No application should assume that things survive a reboot in /tmp - you use /var/tmp for temporary stuff, which is meant to be available after a reboot. > Since things like vi keep their in-work backups > there, What? I've got .blah.swp files all over the place. But not in /tmp. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
